Singers used to reach for an acoustic guitar to protest against governments,
war and oppression. Today’s songsmiths instead take to the internet to opine
about royalty rates.

The popular digital music site Spotify has been forced to defend itself after
Thom Yorke, the Radiohead singer, below, publicly criticised the company and
pulled his music from the service.

The singer said that he was “standing up for our fellow musicians” in a tweet
directed at the Swedish business after Nigel Godrich, his bandmate in Atoms
for Peace, revealed that it had pulled the band’s music from Spotify.